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Course Description
Course Objectives
Intended Audience
Prerequisites
Course & Lab Outline
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Cisco Wide Area Application Services v4.0.13 - 3-day Hands-on Cisco Authorized Course
Course Description
Cisco Wide Area Application Services v4.0.7 (WAAS) is a 3-day course that introduces Cisco WAAS to pre-sales and post-sales engineers, as well as server, storage, and network IT managers. This course teaches the business value of WAN optimization and application acceleration technologies.
You will learn how to design a basic WAAS configuration, and how to configure WAE devices to implement traffic flow optimizations and file/print services.
Course Objectives
In this course you will learn how to:
- Describe the business value of WAN optimization and application acceleration technologies
- Explain how Cisco WAAS and the WAE integrate into an existing network infrastructure
- Explain how to initially configure the Cisco WAE, device mode, and network interception options
- Explain how Cisco WAAS Central Manager is used to centrally configure, manage, and monitor a topology of WAE devices
- Explain how Cisco WAAS Transport Flow Optimizations (TFO) improve TCP behavior for applications existing in Wide Area Network (WAN) environments
- Explain how Cisco WAAS advanced compression minimizes unnecessary bandwidth consumption and helps improve application performance over the WAN
- Explain how Cisco WAAS Application Traffic Policies are used to define system behavior when encountering specific applications
- Explain why application-specific optimizations are required for file services protocols, and how Cisco WAAS improves performance for CIFS and NFS
- Discuss WAAS print services capabilities, why they are necessary, and how they work
- Explain how to monitor and troubleshoot Cisco WAAS
Intended Audience
- Channel Partner/Reseller
- Customer
- Employee
Prerequisites
Student prerequisites are as follows:
- Fundamental knowledge of data networking, as provided by the Cisco course "Introduction to Cisco Networking Technologies" (INTRO)
- Familiarity with Microsoft networking technologies
Course & Lab Outline
Module 1: Cisco Wide Area Application Services
- Lesson 1: Cisco WAAS Overview
- Lesson 2: WAN Optimization Technical Overview
- Lesson 3: Application Acceleration Technical Overview
Module 2: Designing Cisco WAAS Solutions
- Lesson 1: Network Design, Interception, and Interoperability
- Lesson 2: Performance, Scalability, and Capacity Sizing
Module 3: Implementation, Integration, and Management
- Lesson 1: Installing and Configuring the WAE
- Lesson 2: Configuring Traffic Interception
- Lesson 3: WAAS Central Management
- Lesson 4: Configuring Application Traffic Policies
- Lesson 5: Configuring Application Acceleration
Module 4: Troubleshooting Cisco WAAS
- Lesson 1: Introduction to Troubleshooting
- Lesson 2: Troubleshooting Network Interception
- Lesson 3: Troubleshooting WAN Optimization
- Lesson 4: Troubleshooting Application Acceleration
Appendix A: Microsoft Windows Networking
- Lesson 1: Microsoft Windows Networking
- Lesson 2: Lab Reference Guide
- Lesson 3: Design Workshop Reference Topologies
Lab Outline
- Lab 1: Design Challenge
- Lab 2: WAE Installation and Configuration
- Lab 3: Configuring Application Traffic Policies
- Lab 4: Configuring File and Print Services
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Cisco Wide Area Application Services v4.0.13
